From bf6e6e718cdc7488e2da87b21e258ccc065fe499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 23:05:26 -0700
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+      Copyright [2010] [Anso Labs, LLC]
+ 
+      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+      You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ 
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
+      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+      WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+      See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+      limitations under the License.
+
+Getting Started with Nova
+=========================
+
+
+GOTTA HAVE A nova.pth file added or it WONT WORK (will write setup.py file soon)
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+------------
+
+* RabbitMQ: messaging queue, used for all communication between components
+* OpenLDAP: users, groups (maybe cut)
+* Tornado: scalable non blocking web server for api requests
+* Twisted: just for the twisted.internet.defer package
+* boto: python api for aws api
+* M2Crypto: python library interface for openssl
+* IPy: library for managing ip addresses
+* ReDIS: Remote Dictionary Store (for fast, shared state data)
+
+Recommended
+-----------------
+* euca2ools: python implementation of aws ec2-tools and ami tools
+* build tornado to use C module for evented section
+
+
+Installation
+--------------
+::
+
+    # ON ALL SYSTEMS
+    apt-get install -y python-libvirt libvirt-bin python-setuptools python-dev python-pycurl python-m2crypto python-twisted
+    apt-get install -y aoetools vlan
+    modprobe aoe
+
+    # ON THE CLOUD CONTROLLER
+    apt-get install -y rabbitmq-server dnsmasq      
+    # fix ec2 metadata/userdata uri - where $IP is the IP of the cloud
+    iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 169.254.169.254/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination $IP:8773
+    iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface $PUBLICIFACE -j MASQUERADE     
+    # setup ldap (slap.sh as root will remove ldap and reinstall it)   
+    auth/slap.sh     
+    /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start
+
+    # ON VOLUME NODE:
+    apt-get install -y vblade-persist 
+
+    # ON THE COMPUTE NODE:
+    apt-get install -y kpartx kvm
+
+    # optional packages
+    apt-get install -y euca2ools 
+                                   
+    # Set up flagfiles with the appropriate hostnames, etc.                                     
+    # start api_worker, s3_worker, node_worker, storage_worker
+    # Add yourself to the libvirtd group, log out, and log back in
+    # Make sure the user who will launch the workers has sudo privileges w/o pass (will fix later)           
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